ago adj : gone by; or in the past; "two years ago"; "`agone' is an archaic word for `ago'" [syn: agone] adv : in the past; "long ago"; "sixty years ago my grandfather came to the U.S."

English

Alternative spellings

• ygo i obsolete
• ygoe i obsolete

Etymology

ago, past participle of agon, Anglo-Saxon agan.

Pronunciation

• , /əˈɡəʊ/, /@'g@U/

• Rhymes: -əʊ

Adverb

1. Past; gone by; since.

   ten years ago

   gone long ago

2. nearly gone; dead (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century)''

See also

• Wikipedia article on postpositions

Translations

References

• G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon

Esperanto

Noun

1. act, action

Related terms

• agi

Italian

Noun

1. needle

Derived terms

• aghetto, aghino (diminutives)
• agone (augmentative)

Japanese

Noun

1. 顎: chin

Latin

Etymology

Cognates include Ancient Greek sc=polytonic, Sanskrit sc=Deva.

Verb

1. To do, act, make.
2. To drive.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• abigō
• acta
• actārius
• actiō
• actitō
• actīvē
• actīvus
• actor
• actōrius
• actrix
• actuālis
• actuāliter
• actuāria
• actuāriolum
• actuārium
• actuārius
• actum
• actuōsē
• actuōsus
• actus
• actūtum
• age
• agenda
• agens
• adigō
• agilis
• agilitās
• agiliter
• agitātiō
• agitātor
• agitātrix
• agitātus
• agite
• agito
• cōgō
• dēgō
• inigō
• gratias agere
• peragō
• prōdigō
• redigō
• subigō
• transadigō
• transigō

Descendants

• Englihs: act, agent, agency
• Spanish: acción

Võro

Noun

ago

1. twilight

See also

• hummogunõ ago
• õdagunõ ago

AGO is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:

• AGO Flugzeugwerke, aircraft manufacturer
• Alpha Gamma Omega fraternity
• American Guild of Organists
• Angola, from its ISO country code
• Art Gallery of Ontario
• Auditor-General's Office, Singapore
• Agostino Carollo has released records as Ago

antiquated, antique, back, back when, backward, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, elapsed, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, gone, gone by, gone glimmering, gone-by, has-been, into the past, irrecoverable, lapsed, no more, obsolete, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, reminiscently, retroactively, retrospectively, run out, since, vanished, wound up